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Fabrice Canel, who led Bing Search for a long time, retires from Microsoft.
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Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, is retiring after almost three decades at the company. He announced his departure in a LinkedIn post as a goodbye message to his colleagues, partners, and the webmasters he collaborated with."I am stepping down from Microsoft, starting today on July 1st," Canel stated.Canel headed the Bing team in charge of...
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More than 50% of current ChatGPT users primarily utilize a language that is not English, according to data on consumer usage from OpenAI, with Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic being the most popular non-English languages.The numbers provided only account for specific ChatGPT plans like Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, excluding Codex, Enterprise, or education products. Consequently, they do not represent...
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